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10 Sw. J. L. & Trade Am. 407 (2003-2004)
Arrested Development: Patent Laws, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and the Organ Black Market

handle is hein.journals/sjlta10 and id is 413 raw text is: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: PATENT LAWS, EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH, AND THE ORGAN BLACK MARKET Wesley Chang I. INTROD U CTION ............................................................................ 408 II. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING SALES OF HUMAN O RGANS FOR PROFIT ................................................................. 411 A. Dissecting the Organ Transplant Legislation .................... 411 B. MooreProblems.- Case Law Involving Property Interest in the Human Body ................................................ 413 III. PATENTING LIFE: THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS ........... 416 A. Seeds of Doubt: Plant Patent Act of 1930 ......................... 416 B. The Labyrinth: Chakrabarty and the Harvard O ncom ouse ............................................................................ 417 C. Travels wfth the Harvard Oncomouse: International Reception to Patenting Life Forms .................................... 419 IV. PROMETHEUS UNBOUND: STEM CELL RESEARCH AND THERAPEUTIC CLONING ............................................................ 421 A. Search for the Holy Grail. Overview of hES cell R esearch ................................................................................ 421 B. Molecular Biology 101: What Are Stem Cells? ................ 422 C. Politics of Rhetoric. Defining Therapeutic Cloning .... 423 D . M cGreevey Gam bit ............................................................. 424 E. Brave New World Embracing lES Cell Research .......... 426 F. Commodification Debate and Playing God ...................... 427 J.D. Candidate, Southwestern University School of Law, 2004; B.S., B.A., University of California, Los Angeles. Dedicated to the author's father, who taught him discipline; mother, who dotes on him; sister, who supports all that he does; and Mindy, who always believed in him. The author is also grateful to Hussein Chahine for his support and Katie P. for her editorial assistance.

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